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Question
Which one of the following is not a living fossil ?
Options
A.King carb
B.Sphenodon
C.Archaeopteryx
D.Peripatus
Solution
Archaeopteryx lithographica is not a living fossil. It is a fossil bird that lived in Jurassic period about 180 million years ago. Its fossil display the character of both reptiles (eg., long tail, bones not pneumatic, jaw with teeth, fingers terminating into claw, presence of weak sternum, free caudal vertebra etc) and birds (eg, presence of feathers, jaws modified into beak, fore limbs modified into wings, intimate fusion of skull bones etc). King carb, Sephenodon and Peripatus are living fossils.
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